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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Death
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Bravely
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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information (2) coherent knowledge (3) deep understanding (4) infinite loving wisdom (5) no more kidney stones, please.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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